The mortgage on your house is five years old. it required monthly payments of $ 1 comma 422, had an original term of 30 years, and had an interest rate of 8 % (apr). in the intervening five years, interest rates have fallen and so you have decided to refinancelong dashthat is, you will roll over the outstanding balance into a new mortgage. the new mortgage has a 30-year term, requires monthly payments, and has an interest rate of 6.625 % (apr).

For example, the upper right cell shows that if expresso advertises and beantown doesn't advertise, expresso will make a profit of $15 million, and beantown will make a profit of $2 million. assume this is a simultaneous game and that expresso and beantown are both profit-maximizing firms. if expresso decides to advertise, it will earn a profit of $ million if beantown advertises and a profit of $ million if beantown does not advertise. if expresso decides not to advertise, it will earn a profit of $ million if beantown advertises and a profit of $ million if beantown does not advertise. if beantown advertises, expresso makes a higher profit if it chooses . if beantown doesn't advertise, expresso makes a higher profit if it chooses . suppose that both firms start off not advertising. if the firms act independently, what strategies will they end up choosing? expresso will choose to advertise and beantown will choose not to advertise. expresso will choose not to advertise and beantown will choose to advertise. both firms will choose to advertise. both firms will choose not to advertise.